The talk show maven took a tumble over some misplaced luggage during a late-night trip to the bathroom — and showed off the resulting nasty-looking black eye during Friday’s episode of the “Today” show.

“I had to go to the bathroom and I didn’t put the light on,” Vieira explained to Hoda Kotb while filling in for the bereaved Kathie Lee Gifford. “To get to the bathroom, you go through a little dressing room. I just came back from Los Angeles and Spokane to celebrate [her son] Gabe’s 24th birthday. The suitcase is black and the room is black. I fell over the suitcase and I hit my head on the rim of the dressing room table.”

Fortunately for the 61-year-old, the accident wasn’t more serious: “If it had been a little bit lower, something bad could have happened — something really bad.”

The former full-time “Today” anchor explained that this was not her first accident in a dark bathroom, citing a fall into a toilet before the 2014 Sochi Olympics that led to a back injury.

“The toilet seat was up — it was [her husband] Richard’s fault actually that time,” she insisted. “So I fell in and wrenched my back. This was in some ways scarier because of what could have happened.”

“I have limited depth perception and glance off doorways if I am not careful…yet I survive because I have learned self-preservation,” he writes. “I am married to a woman who has not.”

“[Meredith is like] a drunken sailor on a bender who collides with stationary objects and is a danger to herself,” continues Cohen. “It may be time to hire a sitter to protect the poor, dottering dear from herself, especially after dark.”